Bozos, skeptics, materialists. They're always around us when we have some great ideas, when we think to start or to create something new. They are around just to criticize, and not to try anything new.
Here is a list of TOP 10 list of the greatest "bozocities" and, of course, 10 extraordinary storiest of success.
“I think there is a world market for maybe five
computers"
Thomas Watson, the chairman of IBM in 1943.
“Travelling on the fast speed train is impossible,
because the passengers won’t have enough air and will die of suffocation “
Dionisiy Lardner, English scientist
The answer of toy producers to Ruth Handler, on the concept of “Barbie” doll in 1959.
“What sir, would you make a ship agains the wind and currents by lightning a bongire under her deck ? I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen such nonsense.”
Napoleon Bonaparte to Robert Fulton - the inventor of
the steamboat.
“We don’t
like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out”.
Recording company “ Decca Records” to Beatles, in 1962. .
"The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty - a fad.”
President of the “Michigan
Savings bank” on his rejection to the Henry Ford’s offer to invest in “Ford
Motors Company”.
“Who really needs to hears
the actors speaking in movies ?”
Warner Bros. 1927
“Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”
Darryl
Zanuck, the president of the XX century Fox, 1946.
“This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as
a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. “
Western Union memo, 1976
“There is no reason why anyone would want a computer
in their home.”
Ken Olsen,
founder of Digital Equipment Corporation 1977
The best advice that I can give you is:
IGNORE BOZOS.
Anytime you have a great idea, they will try to convince you that you shouldn't, you couldn't do it or you won't do it
IGNORE THEM.
Trust your gut and follow your dream. Do what you think is valuable.
That's the only thing you'll be succesful.
I wish you good luck :)
Now GO and CHANGE THE WORLD ;)
